Improvement in cleansing sugar from molasses



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

AUGUSTUS H. TAIT, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLEANSING SUGAR FROM MOLASSES,&c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No- 145,460, dated Deoembzr 9, 1873; applioaticn filed December 6, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS H. TAIT, of Jersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented a Mode of Cleansing Sugar from Molasses, &c., of which the following is a specification:

The nature of my invention consists in the facilitating the cleansing or purging of the crystallized sugar, in the process of refining,

The grape-sugar may be made from cornstarch, potato-starch, or, in fact, from any substance convertible into grape-sugar by chemical action. of grape-sugar in place of canesugar for washing the crystals is its greater economy, as 1t is not only cheaper, but it does not require to be bleached with bone-black, and the color of the molasses is thereby much improved by the admixture of the light-colored grape-sugar, after it has washed the crystals, especially when the goods are worked over three or four times.

I claim as my invention- The process of cleansing or purging sugars by means of a solution of grape-sugar or, glucose, in the manner substantially as described.

A. H. TAIT.

YVitnesses:

CHARLES MOTT, CHARLES 1VIASON.

The advantage of using a solution 

